Cardiff City
How many points are needed to reach the Championship play-offs?
It offers you hope. It plunges you into despair. The strength of its grip increases the longer the sun stays in the sky each evening. Until the dreaded mathematical impossibility comes into play. Then it’s all over. It’s PO the PO and it’s an obsession throughout the Football League at this time of year. If your team are currently between seventh and twelfth in their division, you probably know exactly …
Six things Sheffield Wednesday fans can expect from Dave Jones
Since being sacked by Cardiff City in the summer, Dave Jones has spent a surprisingly long time unemployed. Sheffield Wednesday have finally given him a route back into management, with the Owls currently lying third in League One and owner Milan Mandaric desperate for promotion to the Championship. So what can Jones bring to the Steel City? Here are six things (one for each of his seasons with the Bluebirds) …
Should the rest of the Football League be proud of Cardiff City?
In his first post since taking on the role of co-editor on the site, Cardiff City fan Joe Harrison asks whether the nature of Liverpool’s Carling Cup triumph last weekend provided plenty of pride for the Football League.
About an hour after Anthony Gerrard had swept his penalty wide, I tweeted that I’d “never been more proud to be a Bluebird”. This prompted a number of responses, commiserating and congratulating …
Who are the most important players in the Championship promotion race?
With the Championship promotion race moving into the final two months of the season, let’s take a look at the key players for each of the teams currently sitting in the top six. Rather than blandly regurgitating tired tales of Rickie Lambert’s goalscoring prowess or Peter Whittingham’s range of passing, perhaps it would be more useful to delve into some statistics to see how effective some of the best players …
Cardiff City v Crystal Palace: A view from both camps
It may be a great thing that the Championship will be represented in the League Cup final this year, but that’s a quirk of fate rather than the main focus as Crystal Palace travel to Cardiff City this evening. This is all about victory (there’s certainly a bit of spice to it) - and then winning at Wembley as well.
The Seventy Two asked regular contributor and Cardiff fan …